UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

Brookhaven, NY, USA

My Aunt and I saw 16 big, round, bright orange lights flying SILENTLY at about helicopter level heading East. They were flying slowly

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-17
Where
Brookhaven, NY, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 min
Geo
40.779, -72.915 · exact
Slug
light-over-brookhaven-ny-2010-e1aa54
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Brookhaven, NY has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 180 reports from New York.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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